''Aeonium aureum'' is a

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in the Stonecrop Family Crassulaceae, native to the

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(Tenerife, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma). It has very short stems, usually with several leaf rosettes. The grey-green leaves are tightly packed and fleshy. The bright yellow flowers are produced on leafy stems, and are up to across.These flowers are extraordinary in being 32-merous (trigintoduomerous) i.e. having usually 32 sepals, 32 petals , 32 stamens and an ovary of 32 carpels each organ class in single whorls. It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common. File:Aeonium aureum (≡ Greenovia. aurea) (Marianne Perdomo) 1.jpg, Leaf rosettes

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aureum Flora of the Canary Islands Plants described in 1819 {{Crassulaceae-stub